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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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